Competitive interests : competition and compromise in American interest group politics / Thomas T. Holyoke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holyoke, Thomas T.

Series:

American governance and public policy

American governance and public policy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pressure groups--United States.

Pressure groups.

United States.

Lobbying--United States.

Lobbying.

Physical Description:

xii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2011]

Summary:

Democratic theory has largely ignored interest group competition since the emergence of group theory in the late 1960s, according to Holyoke (political science, California State U. at Fresno), who presents and tests a model of lobbyist decision making in a competitive environment. The multivariate model is built on data drawn from interest group competition behavior in the legislative areas of dairy pricing, bioengineered food, money laundering, bankruptcy reform, oil royalties for wildlife, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and is used to predict how lobbyists react to the three different factors: pressure from legislators, interest group member constraints, and indirect pressure from a competitive interest group (with the first and the third factors predicted to push lobbyists towards compromise). Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Causes of interest group competition

Competition and interest group politics

the competitive model

Studying contentious policies

An empirical analysis of group competition

Consequences of interest group competition

Competition in coalition politics

Institutional constraints on lobbyist conflict

Competition and gridlock

Competitive interest groups and deliberative democracy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781589017795

158901779X

OCLC:

699379405